Steve Spangler he has been our science
guy for 22 years now and people all
over the country know him for being
the science guy on the Ellen Show.
He's done it all.
But where did it all start?
Mr. Bean splosion of some kind?
No, not really.
30 years of making science fun.
Steve Spangler is a household name.
Ellen, you're
gonna hold onto this. No, I'm not.
Tick tock YouTube. A Guinness World Record
and helping to set the new
Guinness World Records achievement
for the largest physics lesson.
Congratulations, but it
all started in the classroom in 1991.
Steve was a science teacher at Willow
Creek Elementary in the Cherry Creek
School District doing library shows.
In his spare time, an executive
producer who was working for NBC
business video at the time approached
me. Afterwards, her kids were
at this little show and said,
hey, how would you like to?
Beyond TV and I said, sure,
Fast forward nine years and it was
Ed Green that got Steve onto 9 news.
He invited me to come and do
a little segment with him in
the backyard during his weather
and the rest as they say,
is history. Steve and Company
became regulars on 9 news. Jack
would sit in Mark Kobrick's lap
and open the 5:00 O'clock news
when he was four years old. If
I want more information about
this experiment today, where do
I find it? I'm to 9news.com and
click on the 4:00 o'clock page.
Then the brand Steve Spangler
Science came to life selling science
kits to major stores. Nationally.
25 years later we sold it so we
had grown about 45 employees.
We were we had 350 products that we had
produced on the market and a company
came along and said how about you?
Let us take it to the next level and I said,
I'm not sure if my wife said
you are selling it
now. Over the years our next guest
has taught us a lot about science.
Also taught us the importance of
updating our insurance policy.
Becoming best friends with a Warner
Brothers fire Marshall. Please.
Welcome back our science guy Steve
Spangler. So how did Ellen come about?
Channel 9 subscribe. To that feed
and so that was pretty cool and
one thing led to another.
They called and said,
would you like to do some science
since 2007? Steve has appeared on
Ellen's show more than 25 * 3 two one.
Flip it on. She would always push me bigger,
so when I said to her producers,
hey, I like this thing where
I mix cornstarch and water.
I've done it. Channel 9 you know.
And so I'd show them the videos and they go.
That's cute. What would happen if you
did it bigger and I go well, 10 boxes?
That'd be pretty crazy and they're like,
how big could you get?
Well, that that segment ended up the
cement truck 2500 boxes of cording
starts 800 gallons of water and
a small pool and you could walk
across what we made quick, save
and then you leave. And then you leave.
Them to deal with the mess that's leftover,
so let's talk about that.
So I during these pitch meetings
I was saying, you know,
I probably shouldn't do that,
and here's why I shouldn't do this,
so I shouldn't do 3000 film canisters.
And because who's going to clean that up?
And finally, one of the producers
who was really smart said to me.
So let's make sure you understand
your job is to make Ellen smile.
She smiles, we get to keep our
job and you get to come back.
We'll take care of everything,
just make her smile.
Thinking back to when you first started
to where you are now and all that,
you've done all the billion of views and the
YouTube videos and Ellen and everything.
What comes to mind?
What are your thoughts?
How do you feel about it?
I feel just I'm extremely
grateful that the people around
me have given me this opportunity
when I'm done and I'm all gone.
Maybe somebody back in time will come
back and go, that guy kind of made
science fun for people and that's
what we all want as teachers. Wow.
Isn't he so great?
Steve's final episode on Ellen
Airs today at 3:00 PM right here
on 9 news and it's gonna be big.
Ohh, he said, what do you want me to do?
And she said, well,
I don't need the studio anymore, so
go for ohsa gonna burn it down,
awesome for it.
We don't know he is the greatest
guy and not only is a good guy,
but I've always thought
that he's he's part teacher.
He's part Carnival Barker and
he's and he's part magician.
Yeah and and and he's really
good at all of those. OK,
so you know what's interesting
about that is his parents.
We're magicians and he said it was
normal for him to walk down the stairs
of the child and David David Copperfield
would be in their house. That's so,
so that's kind of where it started.
And then he just took the
science approach to, right?
That's really,
and he's so creative with the stuff he does.
Yeah, would think of doing
what he does is it's amazing.
And he uses all the science
to make all that stuff work.
And that's so fascinating and you
found it well, you you discovered him
a dime out of the whole thing to say.
I hope you're getting really
hasn't even bought you dinner.
No, I mean Ellen pays him.
Just shoot stuff at me when we worked it.
No ones just didn't realize that. Ohh wow,
well it was. It was so fun and
Steve's actually gonna join us in
studio to talk a little bit more
about his history and his parents
and the show today that's coming up
on channel 20 over at 7:00 o'clock.
Can't believe it's Germans were magicians.
Yeah it makes sense. And you do
have a little magic of my own.
There you go like that transition right here.